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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Information Unit Values, Water-quality 1985-09-03 2024-04-27
Inorganics, Major, Metals Water-quality 1985-09-03 2013-09-24
Inorganics, Major, Non-metals Water-quality 1985-09-03 2013-09-24
Nutrient Water-quality 1985-09-03 2013-09-24
Organics, other Water-quality 1989-05-09 1990-07-31
Organics, pesticide Water-quality 1989-05-09 1990-07-31
Physical Unit Values, Water-quality 1985-09-03 2024-04-27
Stable Isotopes Water-quality 1989-04-23 1990-05-29
n/a USGS Annual Water Data Reports Site 2006-01-01 2013-01-01
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Monitoring location 425435091281101 is associated with a Spring in Clayton County, Iowa. Current conditions of Collector dry exposure (time within recording interval that collector is open but should be closed), Collector lid cycles in recording interval, Collector wet exposure (time within recording interval that collector is open when it should be open), and more are available. Water data back to 1985 are available online.

Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
425435091281101 n/a
Site name
Big Spring Fish Hatchery near Elkader, IA NADP/NTN n/a
Site type
Spring
SP
DMS latitude 425435 n/a
DMS longitude 0912811 n/a
Decimal latitude 42.90970607 n/a
Decimal longitude -91.4698634 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1927 NAD27
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
Iowa 19
State
Iowa 19
County
Clayton County 043
Country US n/a
Land net location description SENESES31 T094N R05W 5 n/a
Name of location map ST OLAF n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface 770 n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 n/a
Altitude datum
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NGVD29
Subbasin hydrologic unit
07060004
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
Hillside
S
Flags for instruments at site NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
1984 n/a
Date site established or inventoried 198408 n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation CST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
Data have been checked by the reporting agency. C
Data-other GW files NNNNNNNN n/a
National aquifer Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system S300CAMORD
Local aquifer Galena Formation 364GALN
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number 461900500 n/a

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